The word "miserable" derives from the same Latin root as "miser."
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"Can You Be Too Rich?"
Bill Moyers
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What The 1% Don't Want Us To Know"
Bill Moyers Interviews Paul Krugman
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"You Cannot Serve Both God And Money"
(Where are the biblical literalists when we need them?)
(Where are the biblical literalists when we need them?)
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G.K. Chesterton: "The Anarchy Of The Rich"
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G.K. Chesterton: "To Get All That Money You Must Be Dull Enough To Want It"
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Chesterton Viewed The Rich As "Oppressive," "Scum" And "Failures"
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Chesterton: The Best Single Web Source
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/gk-chesterton-best-single-web-source.html
The Hard Central Fact Of Contemporary Conservatism
The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die.
The sooner the better.
Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right."
To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice, hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html
Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall
Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass final judgment.
Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold.
Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this.
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"Dickins, Scrooge and American Conservatism"
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